Heater and drier



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H. LANPHIIER, sR'

HEATER AND DRIER Filed- March 13, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I////. INVENTOR \BY x Patented June 1, 1926.

UNITED iii HOWARD LANIPHIER, SB, 01? ILION, NEW YORK.

HEATER AND DRIER.

Application filed March 13, 1925. Serial No. 15,408.

From experience I have found that much of the heated air delivered from furnaces through reg sters in floors of buildings is wasted as the same is brought too abruptly into contact with the cool air that surrounds the floor surfaces ofthe rooms. Therefore it may be considered the primary object of this invention to produce an attachment for floor radiators in buildings heated by hot air which will, convey the heat a determined distance above the floor surface, to cause the same to mix with the more heated air in the room, and thereby retain the room in comfortable condition.

It is a further object to provide an attachment for this purpose with a hinged reticulated top and to arrange in the said attachment a removable shelf in the nature of a grate that is designed to receive thereon articles to be heated.

It is a still further and important object of the inventionto provide a heat conducting attachment for floor radiators with a clothes drying means, whereby heat passing through the attachment will be directed against the clothes hung on the drier to effect in a quick drying of the clothes or other articles.

It is a further object to produce a heat directing attachment for floor radiators with an oven that is removably associated therewith and also with a clothes drier that is also removably associated therewith, the said clothes drier being of a collapsible nature whereby the same. may be stored in close quarters when not desired for use.

To the attainment of the foregoing and other objects which will present themselves, as the nature of the invention is better understood, reference is to be had to the drawings which accompany and which form part of this application,

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement,

Figure 2 is an end elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a top plan view thereof.

Figure 4 is a. sectional View approximately on the line 1 l of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a detail View, partly in section, to illustrate the manner in which the arms of the clothes drier may be folded.

In carrying out my invention, I arrange directly over a floor register 1 for the heat duct of a hot air furnace, a hollow substantially rectangular member 2. The memher 2 is of metal and is of a size to fully cover all of the openings in the register 1 when arranged thereover. The hollow member 2 has its open top closed by av cover 3. The top of the cover is reticulated or say be of foraminious material, the openings thercthrough, for distinction beingindicated by the numerals 4. The top 3 has its edges formed with a continuous clownwardly. directed lip 5, and this lipped portion is hingediy connected, as at 6, to one of the sides of the member 2.

Tn the member 2, at a suitable distance below its top or cover 3 there are aligning inwardly directed lugs 7 on which there is designed to rest a reticulated shelf 8. The shelf provides the upper portion of the member 2 with an oven and articles to be heated are arranged on the shelf.

Preferably removably secured on the top or cover 4 there is the wire base 9 of a clothes drier. As shown in Figure 3 of the drawings the base, from the center thereof, is formed with oppositely directed angularly disposed pairs of arms, each pair being connected by a member 10, and the base at the junction of the arms and the said angle members is formed with downwardly directed lugs 11 that pass through suitable openings therefor in the top or cover 3. The standard 12 of the clothes drier is also of wire and is effectively secured to the center of the base 9. The standard 12 at its upper end is bent at an outwardangle, as at 13, and this angle portion is coiled, as at 14, one of the e1ements of the coil being extended over the base, as indicated by the numeral 15. The element 15 may be rounded upon itself or there may be a ring member 16 secured to the end thereof. The ring member is guided through the coils 14:. A second and smaller ring member 17 is also guided through the coils 1'4: and has its ends attached to the portion 15 of the standard. The clothes supporting arms are also of wire. Each of the arms is centrally rounded upon itself to provide parallel portions 18 whose outer ends are formed with elongated eyes 19 disposed angularly with respect to the arms 18. These eyes receive therethroiwh the outer ring member 16 and when the arms are moved to horizontal position the angle ends of the said eyes 19 will be arran ed below the inner rin member the arms being moved inwardly to permit of such arrangement. In this manner it will be noted that the arms of the clothes drying rack may be effectively held in clothes sustaining position and may be permitted to drop on the outer ring 16 as disclosed in Figure 5 when the rack is not required for use.

It is thought that the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the drawings will fully set forth the simplicity of my construction and its advantages. The ii'nprovement is, of course, susceptible to such changes and variations from the structural details herein set forth as fairly fall Within the scope of What I claim.

Having described the invention, I claim In. a clothes rack drier, the combination with a hollow base for engagement over a heat register and through Which the heat passes, of a clothes rack havingv a base mounted upon the base member and being constructed of Wire, a standard rising from the base of the rack, inner and outer rin gs supported en the upper end of the stand ard, clothes holding loop arms extending radially in opposite directions from the outer ring and movable to engage beneath the inner ring, and means for holding the rings concentrically in position, said means for mounting the arms on the outer ring consisting of angular-1y arranged loops through which the outer ring loosely ongages, so that the inner ends of the loops may engage with the inner ring.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

HOVARD LANPHIE 1, SR. 

